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 Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August
#8925307 - 09/13/08 06:42 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August
September 14, 2008 - thenews.com.pk
 YANGON: Myanmar arrested 420 drug traffickers last month, state media reported Saturday, as the world’s second-largest opium producer sought to show it was cracking down on the narcotics trade. The UN anti-drugs body has said opium production in Myanmar shot up 46 percent from 2006 to 2007, but the military-ruled nation continues to insist that it is on track to be drugs-free by 2014.
“Action was taken against 420 persons — 346 men and 74 women — in 265 cases in August 2008,” the junta-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper said.
Police, customs and military also seized some 151 kilograms (333 pounds) of opium, 7.5 kilograms (16.5 pounds) of heroin, 1,263 kilograms (2,784 pounds) of low-grade opium and 142,955.5 stimulant tablets, along with other batches of narcotics and chemicals, the paper said.
Myanmar’s mountainous and lawless border regions once hid vast poppy fields which supplied most of the world’s opium well into the 1990s.
Under pressure from governments including close ally China, Myanmar eventually began a campaign in the 1990s to eradicate the crop, and soon Afghanistan took its mantle as the world’s top opium producer.
But after a few years of steep decline, opium production in Myanmar has risen once again.
A UN Office on Drugs and Crime report last year blamed high-level collusion and corruption for the rise, while activists across the border in Thailand say the crop substitution programmes for poor farmers have not been successful.
The military-ruled nation, meanwhile, has become a hub for methamphetamine production, with convoys of high-tech trucks ferrying chemicals and mobile laboratories under the cover of Myanmar’s dense jungle, experts say.
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Re: Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August [Re: veggie]
#8925365 - 09/13/08 06:58 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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heh 420 people what are the odds?
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Re: Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August [Re: zugzugz]
#8925379 - 09/13/08 07:02 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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omg....wtf you guys r lame....drugs r bad......
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Re: Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August [Re: Invisible_Woe]
#8925586 - 09/13/08 07:52 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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420 ftmfw yo!
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Re: Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August [Re: ShroomieGirl]
#8927220 - 09/14/08 03:11 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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142,955.5 stimulant tablets
half a pill lol
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Re: Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August [Re: Jako]
#8927591 - 09/14/08 06:12 AM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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"The UN anti-drugs body has said opium production in Myanmar shot up 46 percent from 2006 to 2007, but the military-ruled nation continues to insist that it is on track to be drugs-free by 2014."
haha HHAHAHAHAHA ahaha
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Re: Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August [Re: j0nnyb0y05]
#8929358 - 09/14/08 03:31 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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This is great! Im so secure in these united states of a...the afghans need to boost their miniscule poppy operation to fund our homies the taliban, great guys..i heard they dont even get high on their own supply! Such piests...gotta love the taliban...they are just like all the other powers from history they "interperate" the rules to make it work..myanmar blows anyway not like they just got raveged by them spinnin turnaders...rich assholes they dont need to grow poppies to survive..with all that consumerism..they need to get their priorities in order like us..we dont even super size any moreee....tripppin the last 5 blotters left in this town after the bust..drpsycho signin out ...approaching lift off...great succeess!!
EDIT: Great timing by the way, its not like the golden triangle hasnt crystalized or anything , ya know...man..its not like unprecedented purity...not made by expert chemists in large budget labs.or anything..hawaii is not seeing any of it no sireee..not like its 99.999 purity smokable grade meth that affects proffessional types...its like crank man from my distant cousin jimbob...yabba dabba delicious bitches..
Edited by psychonaut18 (09/14/08 03:39 PM)
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Re: Myanmar nabbed 420 drug traffickers in August [Re: zugzugz]
#8935495 - 09/15/08 06:37 PM (3 years, 8 months ago) |
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zugzugz said:
heh 420 people what are the odds?
they prolly let the others go after they reached 420 because they wanted to make it an ironic number. 
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